Nishi is a young member at GN Heritage matters who’s worked on heritage documentation and adaptive reuse projects. She has spent a lot of her time working on research and documentation of Vernacular houses of Coastal Karnataka. This has contributed to the firm’s vision of setting up an unprecedented national repository on Indian Vernacular architecture that would highlight traditional knowledge systems and building practices across the country.

Prior to her association with GN Heritage matters, she has briefly worked with Intach, Hampi and Samrakshan India, an NGO with whom she worked on a pilot documentation project of Vernacular architecture throughout Karnataka.

She is keenly interested in investigating the contemporary relevance of traditional architecture and believes its application in mainstream design can create very context specific and sustainable buildings. A paper she recently presented at the ICOMOS annual conference 2020 on a related topic was acknowledged as one of the top 10 papers.